Mike Fahey

You Can Solve This Math Problem, But Can You Solve It Correctly?

It’s never too early for math sequence riddles. Veritasium‘s Derek Muller offered a selection of strangers a simple sequence of three numbers — 2, 4, 8 — and asked them to determine the rule governing the sequence. It’s not what you think. Actually, it is what you think, meaning the problem Muller presents here is…

Blizzard Explains World Of Warcraft‘s $60 Level Boosts

The World of Warcraft community was up in arms last week, when WoW Insider spotted a level 90 boost item available briefly in the in-game store for $60. Speaking to Eurogamer, lead encounter designer Ion Hazzikostas says the high price tag was established to ensure Blizzard didn’t “devalue the accomplishment of levelling”. The power-leveling service…

Why Does Sriracha Taste So Good? Science Explains.

While snack traditionalists cling desperately to their ketchup and mustard, those possessing progressive taste buds have succumbed to the spicy siren song of Sriracha. What sorcery is this? It’s not magic — it’s chemistry. In the latest video from Bytesize Science’s wonderfully informative Reactions YouTube channel, we’re digging much deeper than spices, heat and garlic,…

A First-Person Zombie Shooter… On Facebook?

In case anyone is under the impression that Facebook gaming is all farms and candy crushing, zombie-killing epic Dead Trigger 2 has arrived to challenge that notion with extreme prejudice. Let’s play! Madfinger Games has spent the past couple of years impressing the hell out of iOS and Android gamers with its series of first-person…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Gaming in Russia: From the 90s to This Day. Part 1 • Longread: Introduction to Gaming, Life, and Philosophy • Bravely Default: So Close Yet So Far TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Blacksmithing In The Elder Scrolls Online Is Complicated

In other massively multiplayer online role-playing games, blacksmithing involves find a forge in town and clicking about a bit. In The Elder Scrolls Online, you’ve got to kill some tigers first. Well, you don’t have to kill the tigers. You could probably just bypass them altogether and run for the dungeon entrance, or have someone…

Maingear Pulse 17 Ultra-Thin Gaming Laptop: The Kotaku Review

Well, that’s it. Maingear’s ultra-thin Pulse 17 has sealed my fate — I am completely ruined for thicker gaming laptops. There was a time when the size of a gaming notebook didn’t matter so much. Three or four years ago a portable gaming rig that was nearly two inches thick and weighed close to ten…

Can’t get over Parks and Recreation‘s Andy Dwyer playing the buff Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy? You are not alone. Youtuber AwesomenessX put together this little video to help fans of both properties cope.

What Call Of Duty: Ghosts Needed Was Space Cats. Now It Has Them.

When I played through Call of Duty: Ghosts I got the distinct feeling that something was missing, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. That’s because the glory of Space Cats is forever beyond our human reach. We can but download them as one of many character and personalization packs added to the…

Four Chipotle Burritos. And A Diet Coke. In Three Minutes.

The Chipotle burrito — a massive, suppository-shaped bundle of vaguely Mexican things, weighing approximately five tons. Most people could not eat a single one in three minutes. Competitive eater Matt Stonie makes it look easy. Inside of Matt Stonie, the 22-year-old competitive eater from San Jose, California, there is a black hole which admits food…

Prodigy is a new tactical role-playing experience that combines the world of high-quality figurines with video games. You officially have my attention, Hanakai Studio. Information is sparse, but the concept is intriguing and the artwork is so pretty. I shall keep my eyes on this one.

Hearts Melt When Evangelion Meets Puzzle & Dragons

Crossing over with everything from Batman to Hello Kitty, mobile sensation Puzzle & Dragons has almost become more marketing machine that monster-collecting puzzle game. I don’t mind though, because look at how adorable Rei Anayami is. There’s more. Starting February 24 in Japan and sometime in March over here in the States, Puzzle & Dragons…

World Of Warcraft‘s New Orc Female: Now 100 Percent Less Stupid

Of all the race/sex combinations getting a graphical overhaul in World of Warcraft’s upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion, none needed it as much as the female Orc. How I hated her stupid old face. The body was fine — a powerful frame with well-defined muscles. Sure, she had no fingers, but who did back in…

Gearing up for the release of Reaper of Souls, Blizzard is showing off the new Clans and Communities features coming to Diablo III in patch 2.0.1. Clans are guild-like invite-only affairs, while communities are more casual groups sorted by interests, geographic location and the like. You can find out all bout bothon the Diablo III…

RoboCop Caused $8 Million Worth Of Damage By Today’s Standards

How much property damage could one cybernetic cop possibly do? Quite a lot, it turns out. The keen-eyed CinemaSins folks break out their fancy calculators once more, this time calculating the property damage wracked up in 1987’s original RoboCop. The actual figure they come up with might not be all that impressive, really, but remember…

Sacred 3 brings its colorful co-op Diablo-esque gameplay to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC this summer. With four-player drop-in, drop-out online multiplayer co-op and two-player splitscreen, Deep Silver’s latest foray into the world of Ancaria should be a blast to play with friends and strangers alike. Check out fresh screens below.

Strike Suit Zero Transforms Into A PS4 And Xbox One Game

With fast paced action and mecha that transform into spaceships, there wasn’t a lot not to like about Born Ready Games’ Strike Suit Zero, and what little there was is being addressed in next month’s Strike Suit Zero: Director’s Cut for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Born Ready has polished up the textures, restructured…

A Fully Automatic Assault Rifle At 18,000 Frames Per Second

Gamers have fired billions of rounds out of virtual automatic weapons over the years, but have we ever paused to ponder the marvelous machinery that makes it all happen? The Slow Mo Guys have us covered.

Dragonfall Is The Shadowrun I Know And Love

Meet Blitz, Glory, Dietrich and Eiger. They’re my crew. There are no other runners I’d rather have at my back as I make my way through the stable anarchy of 2054 Berlin. So what if they’re not real? In Shadowrun Returns‘ upcoming Dragonfall expansion, they’re better than life. Last year’s Shadowrun Returns did a fine…

Street Fighter‘s Ryu Has No Idea What He’s Saying

Now that he’s finished harassing the X-Men, Pete Holmes takes his one-man battle against fictional characters to the streets. What does the Ryu say? Fans of Capcom’s storied fighting franchise will no doubt have used Google — as I just did — to figure out that Ryu is saying something along the lines of “Tatsumaki…